9. ANDRE NEL:
He is a South African cricketer who played Test cricket and ODIs for South Africa Nel has been involved in controversies both on and off the field and he has been fined for a number of ICC Code of Conduct breaches during his career.
He is a South African cricketer who played Test cricket and ODIs for South Africa Nel has been involved in controversies both on and off the field and he has been fined for a number of ICC Code of Conduct breaches during his career.
- In February 2001 he hit the headlines after bursting into tears when he felled Allan Donald with a fiery bouncer in a domestic first-class match. It emerged later that he had been following instructions from his coach Ray Jennings to target Donald. He along with his four other team mates was found guilty for smoking marijuana
- In 2003 he was sent home from a South Africa A tour of Australia after being pulled over for drunk driving. During the 2005 Boxing Day Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground he was the subject of racial taunts, in Afrikaans, from fans in Bay 13.
- His enthusiastic and aggressive approach on the field also gets him into trouble and he was notably brought before the match referee for making offensive facial gestures to Chris Gayle and subsequently fined half of his match fees.
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